Our privacy policy

Privacy Policy

On the Adinfo site we do not collect any personal information about our users at present. If in the future, we develop our site to provide services that would, for example, require a personal log-in, or allow advertising, we will be committed to protecting your privacy:

We will not share your information with others without your prior consent.

• We will respect your email privacy. You will receive unsolicited mail fromGuardian News & Media and/or from third parties screened by Guardian News & Media only if you have agreed to this. We will probably need to contact you occasionally about your registration• We will not pass on any individual user details (including your email address) unless we have your prior consent.• Otherwise, we will only share anonymous aggregate statistics about our users, sales and traffic patterns with potential advertisers.• We will reserve the right to access and disclose individually identifiable information to comply with applicable laws and government requests, to operate our systems properly and to protect both ourselves and our users.

Should we elect to change our privacy policy, we will post the changes here. Where the changes are significant, we may also highlight it on the Adinfo homepage.

Cookie Policy

A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie file of the browser on your computer's hard disk so that the website can remember who you are.

A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the 'lifetime' of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number.

When you visit our website, we send you a cookie. Cookies may be used in the following ways:

• To help us recognise you as a unique visitor (just a number) when you return to our website• To compile anonymous, aggregate statistics that allow us to understand how users use our site and to help us improve the structure of our website. We cannot identify you personally in this way.

Two types of cookies may be used on this website:

• Session cookies – temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the site• Persistent cookies – which remain in the cookie file of your browser for much longer (though how long will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie).

We do not use cookies to identify, monitor or track any personally identifiable information. Our cookies in and of themselves do not contain any personally identifiable information about you. We will not merge or associate our cookie information with any potential personally identifiable information obtained by us in the future, or from third parties.

Third Party Advertising

If in the future we show advertising on our site, the advertiser may use cookies to track the number of anonymous users responding to the campaign. We will not have access to or control of cookies placed by third parties.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying your browser preferences. You can accept all cookies, be notified when a cookie is set, or reject all cookies. For more information on how to modify your browser settings to block or filter cookies, click here.

However, note that if you reject some or all cookies, your experience at some sites may be limited. Some sites require cookies to function, such as those with e-commerce features. In addition, if you do not allow cookies, you will not be able to take advantage of personalized content delivery offered by some sites

Use of Web Beacons

Our web pages contain electronic images (called a "single-pixel gif" or "Web beacon") that allow us to count page views or to access our cookies. In general, any electronic image viewed as part of a web page can act as a Web beacon. Web beacons are typically very small, 1 by 1 pixel size, banner like files, but their presence can be easily seen within Internet Explorer by clicking on "View" and then on "Source." Web beacons are so small in order not to use valuable space on the computer screen that is better used to display helpful content.

Our Web beacons do not collect, gather, monitor or share any personal information about our website visitors, they are just another technique we use to compile our anonymous, aggregated statistics about website usage.